Thanks Matt for the response. The *** was the magic bullet and it works. Thanks.
I was curious about the --link-dest argument. Will this speed up anything? I noticed it has the same default behavior of cp -al If its faster or more efficient I would be more than happy to implement this. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Matt McCutchen <m...@mattmccutchen.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:29 -0500, Mag Gam wrote: >> I am trying to rsync a very large filesystem which is about 3TB, but >> naturally I want to exclude a lot of things. However, I am really >> struggling with excluding directories. >> >> SRC=/dasd/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash >> TARGET=/backup/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash >> >> I want to exclude >> >> /dasd/december/2008/Data >> /dasd/december/2008/Logs >> /dasd/december/2008/Catalogs >> >> #NOTICE: I added a trailing slash for $SRC but nothing for $TARGET >> rsync --exclude Data/** --exclude Catalogs/** --exclude Logs/** >> --numeric-ids --archive --delete --delete-excluded --human-readable >> --stats --verbose --progress $SRC/ $TARGET.0 >> >> For some reason Data Logs and Catalogs are still being synced. > > Your rules should match all the contents of the Data, Logs, and Catalogs > dirs, so the only thing I can guess is that the shell is expanding the > whildcards. To avoid that, quote the rules: > > --exclude 'Data/**' --exclude 'Catalogs/**' --exclude 'Logs/**' > > Still, those rules may not be quite what you want. The > directories /dasd/december/2008/{Data,Logs,Catalogs} themselves are not > excluded; to exclude them, you can change the trailing ** on each rule > to *** or just remove it and rely on exclusion of the directory > short-circuiting the traversal of its contents (see the man page). > > Also, the rules will match directories named Data, Logs, or Catalogs > anywhere under /dasd/december/2008 . You probably want to anchor them > with a leading slash to match only the specific directories you listed. > > With both of these changes, the rules would be: > > --exclude /Data/ --exclude /Catalogs/ --exclude /Logs/ > >> BTW, I am using the hardlink method to keep snapshots. So before the >> rsync I am cp -al from 0 to 1 and removing the oldest > > You might consider --link-dest=$TARGET.1 instead; it will save you a > step and avoid corrupting the attributes of old backups. > > -- > Matt > > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html